Organizing around value with ARTs

Question 1

What is customer centricity?

Answer 1

A mindset where we keep the customer at the center of every decision.

Question 2

What are Gemba walks?

Answer 2

When a CEO visits the place where the work is getting done to understand what the problem might be

Question 3

What is the product vision?

Answer 3

What we are doing and why. It describes the future state of the product and gives the team a purpose.

Question 4

What are enablers?

Answer 4

They build and extend the architectural runway.

Question 5

What is the architectural runway?

Answer 5

Existing code, hardware, and brand guidelines that enable near-term features

Question 6

What is CoD (cost of delay)?

Answer 6

How long it takes to implement value. Made up of 3 components:
user-business value
time criticality
risk reduction & opportunity enablement

Question 7

Hod do you calculate WSJF (weighted shortest job first)?

Answer 7

User-business value + Time criticality + Risk reduction and/or opportunity enablement / Job size

Question 8

What is the Fist of Five?

Answer 8

A confidence vote on the plan. The whole team must have 3 or above to move forward.

Question 9

What are some features of the ART Planning Board?

Answer 9

Columns are iterations, rows are teams. Board shows features, milestones, and dependencies across all teams. Shows when features are being completed, not when they are being started.

Question 10

What is ROAM?

Answer 10

A method of addressing risks
Resolved
Owned
Accepted
Mitigated

Question 11

What is the difference between releasing & deploying?

Answer 11

Deploy = migrate changes to production
Release = making those changes available to end users
Deploy continuously, release on demand